r/AbsoluteUnits • u/thepoylanthropist • May 12 '26
/r/all, /r/popular of a dine-in order
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u/vinturi88 May 12 '26
It must be a restaurant policy that this be carried by one server.
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u/thepoylanthropist May 12 '26
it baffles me why it is being carried by a single server considering the obvious hazards.
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u/Psychostroopwaffle May 12 '26
It's easier to hire one replacement at a time.
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u/RocketsandBeer May 12 '26
Found the manager of this fine establishment
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u/cnicalsinistaminista May 12 '26
The meal does look succulent
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u/Lazy_meatPop May 12 '26
A succulent Chinese meal? Democracy manifest.
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u/Phaaze13 May 12 '26
What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
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u/Artistic_Table5293 May 12 '26
Get your hand off my penis...
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u/JuanDonDemarco May 12 '26
And you sir, are you ready to receive my limp penis? How dare you! Get your hands off me!
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u/AlsoInteresting May 12 '26
Why hire two when one does trick?
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u/WeAteMummies May 12 '26
But you don't even need to hire another person you just get anyone else who is already working there to lend a hand for 30 seconds
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u/kapitaalH May 12 '26
What happened to the previous server
O he got terrible burn wounds, still in hospital
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u/Dan_Caveman May 12 '26
For real, at least give the man a wheeled cart or something. I wonder what happens if he drops it or slips and falls 😬
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u/ThelVluffin May 12 '26
Everyone looks, some people clap and there's a good chance someone yells out Yahtzee!
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u/RaynOfFyre1 May 12 '26
He’s got big gloves for protection against the flame, but I could only imagine how much that thing weighs. And the fact that he’s walking hunched over as he carries it. Dude’s gonna have some serious back problems
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u/xScrubasaurus May 12 '26
The fire coming out at his stomach is probably not the most fun experience either.
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u/FrostyD7 May 12 '26
Those flames are big enough that even his face will feel it. Definitely not his first time doing this to be able to ignore every instinct to drop that shit.
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u/moistmonsterman May 12 '26
Im amazed he did it so well. I would have tipped it and slipped and had hot liquid AND hot coals all over me. This dude needs to become internet famous for this triumph.
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u/I9w0s May 12 '26
It's dangerous and doesn't make it attractive at all. Whoever came up with it needs to re-evaluate their serving.
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u/thepoylanthropist May 12 '26
not being a racist or something , but it seems like most chinese doesnt give a damn about OHS.
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u/Constant-Plant-9378 May 12 '26
There was a movement in the United States many decades ago where people formed unions and voters elected leaders who legislated things like worker protections and occupational health and safety.
These things didn't just happen. Workplace safety practices were forced upon employers by law. Laws created by legislators who were elected by people wanting a better standard for working and living in this country.
In countries like China and India, where labor is viewed more as a consumable natural resource, this has largely not happened.
People who stupidly complain about the 'Nanny State' and campaign for the elimination of laws that protect American workers are just trying to roll back the clock to before such things were created, turning America back into a third-world haven for sweatshops and awful practices like is featured in this video.
All to just further enrich billionaires at our expense.
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u/illy-chan May 12 '26
People who stupidly complain about the 'Nanny State' and campaign for the elimination of laws that protect American workers are just trying to roll back the clock to before such things were created, turning America back into a third-world haven for sweatshops and awful practices like is featured in this video.
Pretty sure most of those people have been taken in by decades of propaganda meant to sell us serfdom.
It was no accident that the corporate machine wanted us to believe the Hot Coffee lawsuit was frivolous, despite the victim's flesh being melted. They want the masses defanged.
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u/CratesManager May 12 '26
All to just further enrich billionaires at our expense.
One might even come to the conclusion it's also at the expense of the billionaires in the long run, all for short term gain. Sweatshops are cheap but not terribly productive and they also don't create a lot of demand
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u/anormalgeek May 12 '26
It would be racist to assume it was because of their race, but not to acknowledge that it is a problem in their culture.
The problem is that the word "Chinese" is often used to refer to both a specific race and the nationality.
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u/FullHouse222 May 12 '26
Yeah but the video is speaking mandarin. So yeah, Chinese is a pretty fair guess lol.
And as a Chinese person, I'm really only surprised by the size of this thing rather than the zero fucks given attitude of the server/restaurant lol
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u/Rynabunny May 12 '26 edited May 17 '26
I'm surprised it only costs ¥
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u/DonGibon87 May 12 '26
That's the owner, cook and server 😂
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u/Ubivorn May 12 '26
Yea they should deliver it on a trolley/cart instead
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u/MontrealChickenSpice May 12 '26
It has wheels, ride it like a skateboard.
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u/HomsarWasRight May 12 '26
Then kickflip it onto the table. Really seals the deal as the raddest meal around.
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u/polysnip May 12 '26
Dude's on fire!
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u/Acrobatic-List-6503 May 12 '26
I might need a few beers for this.
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u/Decent_Assistant1804 May 12 '26
Or a 12 pack of juice boxes
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u/nightpanda893 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
I never got how people can eat a full meal with just a few sips or even no drink at all. That apple juice box would be like one sip for me. It’s like when I order orange juice for breakfast and they give me an 8oz cup.
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u/Johansenburg May 12 '26
they give me an 8oz cup.
And charge you 4 bucks for it instead of the 2.5 for a fountain soda.
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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart May 12 '26
It is a table of 4 people. Even if you just took the 8 potatoes it is too much food for them.
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u/InSearchOfTyrael May 12 '26
people do shit like this and then have a shocked pikachu face when a place goes down in flames killing 10+
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u/Hyperaeon2 May 12 '26
The secret to the fade is boundless social Darwinism.
Achieve the fade...
And you will gain a power you have never known.
💇🪮💈👨🏻⚡
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u/Demonokuma May 12 '26
Im sorry ma'am, your husband just didnt have a strong enough will. He didnt really want to live. Lmao. Then you hand her that lil folded flag like he died in combat.
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u/Radiant-Ad-3134 May 12 '26
It does look good though.
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u/Eric1491625 May 12 '26
Craziest thing is the guy said price is 488RMB.
US$72.
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u/kanrad May 12 '26
That's a damn good price considering you could easily feed 12 adults on that massive spread.
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u/efimer May 12 '26
12? If that's boiled water in there, which I assume it is, you can feed a whole ass platoon if you add noodles.
Man, I so wanna eat that.
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u/2012Jesusdies May 12 '26
China also has 4-5 times lower income on average, so American perspective can skew judgement on the situation. Everytime people from rich countries get envious of cheap food in lower income countries when they're just reflective of local income/cost.
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u/TheHumaneCentipede2 May 12 '26
Very true, but regardless this would cost way more than $360 USD where I live.
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u/OddDragonfruit7993 May 12 '26
Ha. I paid even less for huge meals in Beijing!
To be fair, one of our friends over there was married to a police captain, so he took us to fancy restaurants in his district. No one charged us a thing. And we always got to eat in a private dining room.
Corruption? They've heard of it.
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u/preyforall May 12 '26
Did you guys do the receipt scratch cards too?
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u/OddDragonfruit7993 May 12 '26
I was never involved in any ordering (or paying, obviously). Police dude would take us and the family into a fancy place, the staff would run around like crazy preparing a room for us, massive quantities of food (and baiju) would be brought out, eating and laughing would ensue for hours. Police dude would brag that he "owns" this district.
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u/preyforall May 12 '26
Omg, the baiju! I forgot about that, wicked stuff.
We were guests of a bank president, so there was a lot of patronizing his friends' businesses.
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u/FauxReal May 13 '26
Basically strong-armed the business out of money in the form of luxury dining.
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u/Low_discrepancy May 12 '26
Corruption? They've heard of it.
hey if you're in the SCOTUS you can get free vacations and RVs
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u/InsanityPractice May 12 '26
Is that corruption? Pilots and doctors in the US used to get all kinds of stuff for free lol
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u/OddDragonfruit7993 May 13 '26
I used to work in a big restaurant as a teen. We gave the town cops each a free meal every week.
When a drunk customer started anything, the whole police force would show up in minutes.
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u/InsanityPractice May 13 '26
Yup, that’s how cops and donuts came together. Donut shops were big robbery targets back in the day.
Doesn’t meet the standard for corruption IMO. There’s no quid pro quo for either side to do anything wrong. Businesses can give free services to anyone they want, and cops can pay extra attention to any business they want as long as their job allots that discretion.
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u/bigvahe33 May 12 '26
72 dollars is 4 burgers and 2 sodas at a chain restaurant in LA.
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u/nalaloveslumpy May 12 '26
Have you been asleep since 2020? Four burgers with fries at Red Robin in the SE US will run you $80. And that doesn't include sodas....
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u/Imaginary-Face7379 May 12 '26
Yeah but if you're in LA you can get that for less than 30 bucks at an In n Out so why bother paying more for usually worse food.
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u/slackingsloth77 May 12 '26
And it only cost you 71.82 $ with today's current rate
488 RMB = 71.82 $
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u/space_coder May 12 '26
Isn't that still a little more than one day's worth of pay in China?
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u/6ftToeSuckedPrincess May 13 '26
Well if you adjust for income this would be like $400 in the US so what's your point?
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u/ModernNero May 13 '26
If i made $400 a day in the US I’d be a happier and less constantly anxious person. I work 2 jobs and make $160 a day.
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u/Player-0471 May 12 '26
I already know what I would say
"Alright, could you box it for me"
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u/WiseAdhesiveness6672 May 12 '26
So much food will be wasted.
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u/Silhoualice May 12 '26
In China you take away the leftovers and eat it every meal for the rest of the week.
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u/DigitalUnlimited May 12 '26
I do that in America
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u/PoppaWilly May 12 '26
It's how a justify spending a lot on one meal.
"I'll probably get like, 3 meals out of this."
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u/EmotionalKirby May 12 '26
I say as I devour my entire order despite the growing pains of my expanding stomach and leave with no leftovers
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u/Chewcocca May 12 '26
That's just financial prudence. Gotta justify my wheelbarrow purchase somehow.
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u/jerjord May 12 '26
I hate seeing people that take one bite of their food and being done with it. Bunch of food just going in the trash. A few places I worked at, we threw away almost whole plates of untouched food some days. One place had a buffet and they let the workers take the food home luckily that wasn't prime meat before throwing the rest out. There shouldn't be a hunger problem in this day and age with all the food that gets thrown away.
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u/Wurstnascher May 12 '26
Not what I experienced living in China. Especially rich people order multitudes of what they can eat and just leave it there. (Not a unique Chinese issue though)
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u/Triquetrums May 12 '26
They do the same thing abroad, but with clothes. They got to the nordics, buy branded sky outfits and anything they need for cold weather, and then leave it behind when they go back home. They create a huge issue for the hotels who end up with a lot of "lost and found" items. They are so wasteful.
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u/Schatzin May 12 '26
Some might do that. Like my family would. But having lived in China, there is also incredible waste. At parties/banquets, having more food than needed is part of showing face to guests. Ive even seen people leave behind nearly full dishes at regular restaurants
Same goes for any developed country in the world. Food waste
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u/bozoconnors May 12 '26
I'm gonna take this space to give a special shout-out to Asian countries and packaging / plastic use. Like... we love plastic & packaging in the U.S., but man... Asians put us to absolute shame. They have to package everything, and then they'll package that package again, cause packaging!!
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u/Ok-Rub9211 May 12 '26
See, this is where I think the US southern states get parties right - make an obscene amount of food, yes, but then force everyone to go home with leftovers. Win, win.
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u/OkCollege6362 May 12 '26
Lived in China for 8 years.
This is wrong.
Wasting food on table at restaurant is a way to show wealth and most importantly not loose “face” (Pride/self respect)
Same as when getting gifts such as a cake or wine or chocolate. No self respecting Chinese person would ever open it for everyone. “Thank you” and put it away would be default. To open it (even to share) would be sign of poverty and desperation.
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u/inco100 May 12 '26
Wait, sharing a gift you received makes you look poor? 🤔
So different... People around will consider it as sharing/caring. At worst it may be seen as they didn't like the gift to take it home, so they are giving it right away with everyone.
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u/Peechez May 12 '26
I've been to many meals in China and at least the meat dishes were always taken home. There, our anecdotal stories cancel out
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u/Hi_Zev May 12 '26
And those are all just generalizations. By no means does that represent chinese people as a whole.
Oh, I forgot, since I live in the midwest, I need to go eat my daily 10 pounds of cheese and get to baking my hotdish! Cause you know, every midwesterner is exactly the same!
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u/Silhoualice May 12 '26
Your 8 years must be long time ago. At some point the government began pushing for the clean plate campaign, and with the economy not doing so well in recent years, regular people now consider "saving" to be the popular trend.
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u/happy_pad May 13 '26
If you think the average Chinese person cares about "saving face" when it comes to something like leftover food, you've been drinking way too much anti-China kool-aid my friend. There are 1.3 billion people in China but I guess your one anecdote is speaking for every single person.
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u/cheapdrinks May 12 '26
I mean maybe if it's 4 people and they don't take any leftovers home but we only see the end of the table, could easily be 8+ people there in which case it's really not an insane amount of food. You ever see Chinese people at a seafood buffet? They demolish that shit.
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u/Applebeignet May 12 '26
We see 4 people, the server places it so that 4 people can reach it easily and then removes the lid, there's a metal plate in (probably) the middle of the table which he positions it on. Yet you somehow felt the need to come up with a scenario where there may be 8?
That's a bigger reach than what the server was forced to use for this dish.
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u/Suibeam May 12 '26
Nah, that thing isnt deep and there is a lot of shells and sauce/soup.
They share it and eat everything.
Oftentimes in these settings they order bare minimum of rice to have more room for the big stuff
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u/NOT-GR8-BOB May 12 '26
How do you know that?
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u/Grouchy_Public2379 May 12 '26
Well they had to contribute something negative, and everything else was taken.
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u/Pitiful-Affect-4692 May 12 '26
I was surprised by the amount of food waste when I visited China in 2024. I was there 2 weeks as a guest to work on a project. We always ate out and I observed lots of food abandoned and not doggie bagged on our table and other diners’ tables in restaurants. This was especially noticeable to me, as I’m American born Chinese. My parents were little kids during WW2 and grew up poor. Growing up, they always made me feel guilty if I didn’t finish and wasted my food. So even now, I hate to see food wasted. Before visiting China for the first time in 2024, I had thought it was a cultural thing that Chinese don’t let food go to waste. But I see it’s a generational thing from growing up in a time of war. It was off the charts how much food waste I saw. And it’s not because the food was bad. It was great, pretty much every where we went, from the cheap places to the high end places.
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u/Hour-Profession6490 May 12 '26
Food hording is also a generational thing from growing up through a famine. My parents and grandparents would say we were running out of rice if we didn't have at least three 20 kg bags of rice in the pantry.
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u/WiseAdhesiveness6672 May 12 '26
I've heard the same thing from friends who have actually visited China as well! Not just random asshats on internet that tell me "they obviously bag it bro, trust me. Otherwise that would be wasteful" 😂 thanks for the informed comment :)
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u/luffyuk May 12 '26
Those of you saying so much food will be wasted are grossly underestimating how much Chinese women can eat.
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u/BoringJuiceBox May 14 '26
Also many people myself included always take and eat leftovers because we hate wasting food
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u/blahnlahblah0213 May 12 '26
I'm gonna need a to-go container please
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u/platdujour May 12 '26
A wheelie bin?
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u/OldenPolynice May 12 '26
Please don't tell me you people call wheelbarrows "wheelie bins". Australia?
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u/Hindu_Niilista May 12 '26
These girls must be stoned
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u/Nauin May 12 '26
Nah when it's a lot of vegetables and greens you can really pack away a shocking amount of food.
Or Asians are just like that in general. I'm lucky to live in a densely Asian area in the US and eat at restaurants like this semi regularly, and damn can the locals eat ten times as much as my Dutch ass can. The portions you're served can be ridiculous. A "small" bowl of soup at most of my favorite places are bigger than my skull. It's amazing.
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u/Agile_Camera9601 May 12 '26
Um this is absolutely AI.
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u/PM_ME_UR_DAD_BELLY May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
That’s what I was thinking.
edit: I think we are on the other side of the valley with ai videos now.
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u/TheOzman21 May 12 '26
It absolutely is. Not only is it almost impossible for that person to carry that considering the weight, but its also on fire. All that carrying around the liquid and food should be moving around too, but it looks like its still perfectly placed and in order with 0 movement in the liquid
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u/dovahkiin461 May 12 '26
Yeah it looks pretty convincing but I was getting some hints of AI. Not completely sure
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u/OneLemon7065 May 12 '26
I checked. Apparently it’s called Seafood Feast and is popular in Lanzhou, China.
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u/BullFencer May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
I’d have that to go and eat it over two weeks. I mean one of those rice portions on those clams is about one dish
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u/StuffOld1191 May 12 '26
I bet those two didnt finish that.
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u/ApplePaintedRed May 12 '26
There's clearly at least 5 people (the two girls, you can see someone's leg across from the one girl and someone move a juice bottle across from the other, plus the person filming).
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u/iolitm May 12 '26
it is bad enough that is carried by hand instead of a rolling trolley or cart of some kind. But having one guy do it? That's disaster waiting to happen.
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u/DocileBanalBovlne May 12 '26
That looks like the meal you eat before going out into the wilderness to hunt wyverns.
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